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Challenging the too-common view of education as merely a means of achieving financial well-being, Noddings advocates a unifying educational aim of producing better adults. This book offers strategies to improve high schools that consider the full range of students' talents and interests and encourage more choice for students and teachers.

Schools can do little to reduce the economic and political causes of war and violence, but they can do much to moderate the psychological factors by helping students understand the forces that manipulate them. This book provides an approach to peace education designed to help students understand these psychological factors.

How can we take happiness seriously as an aim of education? Noddings discusses the contributions of making a home, parenting, cherishing a place, the development of character, interpersonal growth, finding work that one loves, and participating in a democratic way of life. She explores ways to make schools happy places.

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself', it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them.